Spring-bed



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SPRING BBD.

No. 266,197. Patented ootymflssz,

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SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,197, dated October 17, 1882. Application filed September 4, 188:2. (No model.)

T 0 all Izr/tom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC PURCELL and ENOCH PURCELL, citizens ot' the United Sta-tes, residing at Cumbaek, in the county ot' Daviess and State ot' Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Beds, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to au improvement in bed-springs; audit consistsin forming a spring of peculiar construction from a piece ot' Wire, and iu combining therewith a coiled spring as to enable the two lower bent ends ot' the wire (which are adapted to take hold of the opposite sides of a bed-slut) to be stretched apart or brought nearer together, so as to adapt the spring to any width ot' slat, as will be more fulltiY set forth hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is atop plan View of' one brd-spring. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ot' the same attached to asiat.

A represents a spring formed from a single piece ot' wire, bent to form a hook, a. The cone b rises therefrom, whence it extends to form a spiral of two turns, c, situated at an angle ot' forty-tive degrees (450) to the cone b, from whence the wire extends to form a second spiral, d, in line with the spiral c, and at an angle of forty-live degrees (450) to the cone b on the opposite side, from whence it extends to form a second cone, e, cone l), equidistant from the spirals c d, the wire terminatiinf.;` in a second hook, f, at the in aline with the base ofthe cone e. These hooksf are adapted to take hold of the opposite edges ot' a bedplate, B, and thus secure the spring thereto. In order to retain the grasp ot' the hooks on the slat, we provide the spiral spring C, which connects the two cones b and e and tends normally to keep them pressed together. This spring C also adapts the spring a to be applied to slats otdit't'erent widths, as will be apparent.

A bed-spring thus constructed is exceedingly cheap, simple, and strong, and will be found to wear well.

Having thus described our invention, we claiml. The bed-spring A, formed from a single piece of' wire, and having the hooks aj', cones b c, and spirals c d, arranged at right angles to the cones, the hooks af being adapted to take hold ot' the opposite edges of a bed-Slat, in combination with abed-slat,substantially as set forth. Y

2. The bed-spring A, formed from a single piece ot' wire, and having the hooks af, cones b 6, and spirals c d, arranged at right angles to the cones, in combination with a spring, C, connecting the two cones b e and a bed -siat, B, all combined to operate substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we aftlx our signatures in presence ot' two witnesses.

ISAAC PURGELL,

ENOOH PURGELL.. lVitnesses:

J Aims C. LAVELLE, E. F. MEREDITH. 

